Horace - Ars Poetica

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Works of serious purpose and grand promises often have a purple patch or two stitched on, to shine far and wide.

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He always hurries to the main event and whisks his audience into the middle of things as though they knew already.

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"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

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